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Condition: a superb lifetime impression that is crisp, well-inked
and well-printed. The engraving and its accompanying page of letterpress text
is still joined by the glue of publication and both pages are in excellent/near
pristine condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds—beyond the centre
fold of publication—nevertheless, there are faint spots and age-toning,
especially near the edges).

I am selling this very full composition of birds—a veritableornithologist’s
treasure trove—from one of the most lavish publications ever made for AU$102
(currently US$80.97/EUR64.96/GBP57.33 at the time of posting this listing). Postage
for this print is extra and will be the actual/true cost.

If you are interested in purchasing this remarkable print, please
contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice
to make the payment easy.

This is one of the original engravings published in the first (1731)
edition of Scheuchez’s almost legendary, “Physica Sacra” (Sacred Physics). I
use the word “legendary” as very few books were created with such care, expense
and with so many engraved illustrations as this extraordinary book.

For those unfamiliar with “Physica Sacra”, this huge publication was based on what we now know to be a flawed
premise: Scheuchez believed that he had irrefutable proof that the events described in the
Old Testament were all true because he had the fossilised remains of a victim of the Great
Flood (see Genesis chapters 6–9). Sadly, when the “fossilised victim”
was later examined by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1811, Cuvier's findings revealed that the "victim" was in fact a large prehistoric salamander.